- Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations, Book One, through Chap. 9 link
- Marx/Engles - Communist Manifesto link
Yes, we're deep into economics this month. I haven't read either pieces, though I've read quite a bit about each one. My early economic knowledge was informed by Ayn Rand's 'Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal'. If I recall, she was broadly on board with Smith.
Similarly, I've been anti-communist since I was very young. I'm going to try very hard though, to read the Manifesto in the sense of the period in which it was written. In other words, in terms of how things looked at that stage of the industrial revolution and fairly new democracies. Maybe after I'll write about how various communist attempts have worked out.
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